Word: hails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans have a locator equally effective. The German device worked perfectly on the U.S. Catalina patrol bomber which spotted the Bismarck last May: the bomber had been followed through the clouds by radio detection from the German battleship, and the instant the plane appeared it got such a hail of ack-ack fire that it had to retreat...
...Arkadelphia, Ark. "And we don't have to look far in our part of the country." To scotch any suggestion of ivory-hunting, he points out that three of the boys in his starting line-up live within 100 miles of the college campus; the other two. who hail from Malta Bend, Mo., came to West Texas State because their uncle is a caretaker there...
...Hail & Farewell
...yards of his vessel. Hits were immediately scored and, as the sub's conning tower emerged, a destroyer administered the coup de gráce with depth charges. The tender then shot down a second plane. Motor launches from a vessel laid up for overhaul braved a steady hail of bullets and shrapnel, rescued scores of victims from the oil-fired harbor. Almost without exception officers and men exhibited quick thinking, coolness, coordination...
...Hail & Farewell. In Paterson, N.J., a man complained to police that a woman had embraced him on the street, picked his pockets of $260 in cash and $360 worth of jewelry...